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'''Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid''' (1979) is a book by [[Douglas Hofstadter]] that explores how [[self-reference]] and formal recursion operate across seemingly disparate domains — logic, visual art, and music. The book's central insight is that the "strange loop" — a hierarchical structure that turns back on itself — is not a disciplinary curiosity but a universal architectural pattern, appearing in Gödel's incompleteness theorems as a sentence that asserts its own unprovability, in Escher's paradoxical drawings as visual feedback between levels, and in Bach's canons as musical structures that modify themselves. Hofstadter extends this analysis to argue that consciousness itself is a strange loop: a sufficiently complex self-referential pattern that achieves stable identity by representing its own representation.

The book won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for General Nonfiction in 1980 and has influenced fields from [[cognitive science]] to [[computer science]] to [[music theory]], though critics have questioned whether its interdisciplinary analogies hold under rigorous analysis.

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